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Introducing eSportsMoney [ESM], inspired by competitive video gaming and the personalities surrounding this phenomenon. My goal for this currency is inspired and influenced heavily by the idea of Sexcoin, the cryptocurrency of the adult entertainment industry. My coin is also heavily influenced by Litecoin, and BBQcoin, the two coins that helped create my brainchild. The ultimate purpose of this coin is to help foster and develop the growth of professional competitive gaming around the world. That is, the main purpose of this coin is to sponsor and foster gaming events and online tournaments, as has been done recently in the StarCraft 2 scene with both Dogecoin and Bitcoin. I hope to see this coin being used for “money matches” in all types of competitive games, to be used to sponsor events, (and maybe even one day teams). But eSportsMoney is not just for the competitive gaming events, I hope that we can see people use it as a currency for gaming, such as for the buying and selling of items within DotA 2, League of Legends, CS:GO, and other games with within-game items that are of monetary value.


eSportsMoney is based on BBQcoin, as mentioned before, and it is very similar to BBQcoin with a few key differences. eSportsMoney has a block size of 42 coins (the same as BQC), however the block size of eSportsMoney will be halved after 12,000,000 blocks, rather than 24,000,000 blocks which is the case for BQC. In addition, eSportsMoney has a difficulty readjustment time of 4 hours rather than 1 hour (which is the case for BQC). Of course the ports are also different, but those are listed above and there's nothing especially unique about using different ports. I would hope that this goes without saying; this is a coin with a real development team (though small) and was not created using one of the automated coin generators.


I've been mining, buying, and selling cryptocurrencies for about a year now, and this is my first attempt at creating a currency. I realize that I have very lofty goals for eSportsMoney, but the community's involvement both here and from within the various eSports around, I think that we can create something of value that can further the growth of competitive gaming. There is ZERO PREMINE and I will be starting my solomining of this coin about 5 minutes after this article is posted on the Bitcointalk forum.


Lastly, as previously stated the coin is being launched without an official mining pool. I don't know what to expect as far as mining results go, but I intend on mining quite a few blocks in the first few hours. I don't know what I'll get yet so I can't make any firm promises, but I will award some kind of bounty to the creator of the first ESM mining pool. In addition, anyone that produces a blockchain explorer for ESM will be similarly compensated, and the same goes for whoever can compile a Mac OS client. However, we are really looking for a developer that would like to stick with us to regularly update the Mac OS client (as the LTC client is updated). I would like to extend a very special thank you to Elbandi for helping me every step of the way with this project. It could not have been done without your help!


If you have any questions, or would like to help further the development of this coin, you can contact me on Twitter @eSportsMonies or PM me. Also, feel inclined to join us on Steam, you can always find me there!


Please, don't kill eSports!

gl hf!

esportsmoney.conf should look like this:

server=1
rpcuser=username
rpcpassword=password
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=29334
daemon=1
gen=0
maxconnections=50

addnode=162.243.198.168

here we go

Utterly awful.

Are you people even trying anymore?

Hazard is just mad that I found people to help me and that cared about creating something, rather than paying him to make a coin for me.

lol ???  ::) not syncing

@ponech is your .conf set up correctly?

Not syncing either and it says that 450K blocks remaining...

yes im very good at copy paste

reserved

Flash mine FAIL: 1 | scumbag dev: 0


[
{
"addr" : "162.243.198.168",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1389044700,
"lastrecv" : 1389044700,
"bytessent" : 1336,
"bytesrecv" : 1512,
"blocksrequested" : 3,
"conntime" : 1389044395,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6.1/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 4,
"banscore" : 0,
"syncnode" : true
},
{
"addr" : "84.2.34.94:28335",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1389044700,
"lastrecv" : 1389044700,
"bytessent" : 987,
"bytesrecv" : 418,
"blocksrequested" : 3,
"conntime" : 1389044402,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6.1/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 4,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "173.175.28.28:28335",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1389044700,
"lastrecv" : 1389044700,
"bytessent" : 1042,
"bytesrecv" : 418,
"blocksrequested" : 3,
"conntime" : 1389044408,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6.1/",
"inbound" : false,
"startingheight" : 4,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "65.188.163.155:49507",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1389044700,
"lastrecv" : 1389044700,
"bytessent" : 832,
"bytesrecv" : 351,
"blocksrequested" : 2,
"conntime" : 1389044447,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6.1/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 5,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "72.129.99.9:50826",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1389044700,
"lastrecv" : 1389044700,
"bytessent" : 777,
"bytesrecv" : 406,
"blocksrequested" : 2,
"conntime" : 1389044454,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6.1/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 5,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "117.144.128.138:63333",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1389044700,
"lastrecv" : 1389044700,
"bytessent" : 506,
"bytesrecv" : 290,
"blocksrequested" : 1,
"conntime" : 1389044669,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6.1/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 6,
"banscore" : 0
},
{
"addr" : "109.192.47.234:51918",
"services" : "00000003",
"lastsend" : 1389044742,
"lastrecv" : 1389044740,
"bytessent" : 265,
"bytesrecv" : 174,
"blocksrequested" : 0,
"conntime" : 1389044740,
"version" : 70002,
"subver" : "/Satoshi:0.8.6.1/",
"inbound" : true,
"startingheight" : 7,
"banscore" : 0
}
]

BUT NO SYNC

Something is not working correctly with this coin.

New clients uploaded. Sorry everyone.

http://demo.chevereto.com/images/2014/01/06/fall2.png

the wallet continues mining .. and finding

so ... close ?

I updated the original thread. Everything should be fine now. Very few blocks were mined in the chaos over the last hour, the developers didn't mine anything, and the difficulty won't adjust for another 3 hours. Sorry everyone!

You are mining out of sync. You will loose your coins like this

It appears 500+ blocks were mined prev.

Fuck me.

The difficulty is still extremely low, and will be for another 3 hours!

wallet is clean
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/2e809fe40bbfcd2a3de74f90fd839003aaf82a41116ebafba405f6e6e5811ba8/analysis/

Hey you said diff won't increase but it has just increased

Didn't he said no premine? LOL Such a shame!
Difficulty Retarget Time is 4 hours or 240 blocks?

my wallet says synching 0 hours behind and in the corner processed 1000 out of 456000 blocks....

@the56ker did you download the client in the last 10 minutes? We just updated it.

Any give me some conins? ebjLKPuQXnqqxpLDsF4JRxB23BdsV4kHaB thx

what means "volvo please fix"

Difficulty is increased so from now on 1 minute = 1 block

you said it won't increase for 3 hours and this is the second time that it increase...do you have any clue what is happening with your own coin?

yeah figures downloaded wallet 10 minutes before you updated it working now but network diff set to 280T o_O

80% reject  >:(


{
"blocks" : 1163,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.00390625,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : -1,
"hashespersec" : 4406,
"networkhashps" : 4934550,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}


{
"blocks" : 1203,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.01562500,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 4,
"hashespersec" : 16239,
"networkhashps" : 5033241,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}


difficult increased..

The blocks have been coming incredibly fast due to a large amount of mining power on the coin. The difficulty retarget time is supposed to be 4 hours because each block is supposed to come every 60 seconds ideally. However, this 4 hour time is caused by 240 block retargets. So, the blocks are getting mined exponentially faster than I expected and the difficulty is increasing because of it.


@ekrem
Have you tried adding -s 2 or -s 3 to your miner? I've decreased my stales a bit by lowering the scan time.

No pool, no launch, how is this possible, come on guys!!!  

Mining all rejecteds! donation please ebjLKPuQXnqqxpLDsF4JRxB23BdsV4kHaB

@pmm123 I sent you something!

thx! :)

ive found a couple blocks already not even getting unconfirmed amounts in wallet every other coin usually finds the block adds amount to unconfirmed in wallet til its cleaered

It should show it as immature until it's in your balance.

thks bro

Did it help? :D

wallet only shows balance unconfirmed does not show immature and found 3 blocks 2 were rejects 1 cleared wallet shows nothing different atleast blocks are slowing down to 2 a minute instead of 6

Make sure your computer time is perfectly sync'd with internet time (like time.windows.com) if you use windows. Are those unconfirmed blocks becoming confirmed in your balance?

yes A:6  R:9 better

Going for a speed sales record here.

WTS 630 ESM for 0.05 BTC!

Yay! Now, I need to find someone who can host a pool. Not doing this beforehand is irresponsible of me and I apologize.

yes time is synced correctly getting rejects like crazy you should set up atleast an irc since everything is yet to be done haha changed my -s to 2 lets see what happens

{
"blocks" : 1466,
"currentblocksize" : 1000,
"currentblocktx" : 0,
"difficulty" : 0.06250000,
"errors" : "",
"generate" : true,
"genproclimit" : 4,
"hashespersec" : 14830,
"networkhashps" : 18402575,
"pooledtx" : 0,
"testnet" : false
}

maigod

I thought the ideal scan time was 1. True or False?

Mother of... mining pool? :O

How do I mine this? I've only mined from a pool before. Never by myself.

I have -s 1 results around 50% rejects

maybe tomorrow solo not possible,need pool

First you need to make sure you have the esportsmoney.conf properly setup. Then, you create a shortcut to your eSportsMoney client with -server added to the end of the target. Launch eSportsMoney through this shortcut and wait for it to sync. Then point your mining hardware at yourself (127.0.0.1: 29334) and use the username and password listed in your esportsmoney.conf file. You can tell if its working correctly because it will stop working if you close the client.

Me too 50% rejects! Matters the Expire time or we can leave as default?

my expire time is 2

Is this a valid guide to try and follow? http://cryptocur.com/litecoin/litecoin-ltc-gpu-mining/

I noticed it doesn't have the add node in that guide.

That's a pretty good guide to follow but you can also use GUIminer-scrypt for simplicity. In addition, you need to create an esportsmoney.conf file like the one that is displayed on the first post of this thread, not the Litecoin one.

WTB 100000 for 0.10BTC

There aren't that many in existence yet :D

Also, WTB 1000 ESM for 100K Doge (and more at that rate!).

can't syn   ??? ??? ???

I've mined about 2300 so far, no rejects, just a few accepted blocks every few minutes.

I don't understand how some get so many rejects.

mining@ Sapphire Toxic R9 280x - 739 k/hash

pls post your results, I am curious.

Nope not working... This is my arguments in the .bat file

D:\Cryptocurriencies\cgminer\cgminer --scrypt -o http://127.0.0.1:29334 -u geokilla.1 -p 1234 -thread-concurrency 16320 -I 17 -g 1 -w 256

.conf is:

server=1
rpcuser=geokilla
rpcpassword=1234
rpcallowip=127.0.0.1
rpcport=29334
daemon=1
gen=0
maxconnections=50

addnode=162.243.198.168

I have been getting a lot of stales, but I've still mined around 1200 in the last hour and ten minutes. My normal KH/s is about 1600.  

Is that username and password what you have set in your esportsmoney.conf file? Did you make a shortcut to esportsmoney's wallet and add -server to the end of the target line?

Been mining for 30 minutes now and no blocks accepted at all :(

ebBVdHvtbde75LWEKD8pvwd7ufeapJ5vfc

Use geokilla as your username, not geokilla.1

I edited my previous post. Yep it is. Here's my updated esportsmoney.conf:


And the esportsmoney.bat:


I got the desktop shortcut too with -server at the end of the target line.

I sent you half a block.

Holy Moly! The Nethashrate is crazy on this one. Its damn hard to mine it :o

eZznMTTLFAVPJa2gZQNHHzXw8MDuS57AeC

i set mine to -s 2 0 rejects in 40 minutes 5 blocks found and credited to my wallet im a bottom feeder though have 400kh/s to play with

diff already 0.25

Anyone working on the block explorer bounty?

@buddyuno

I sent you half of a block. I have not started saving on a block explorer bounty yet, I am more concerned with making a respectable bounty for a mining pool because I think, due to the high network hashrate, that's what people want the most. Please correct me if I'm wrong, I want what's best for my brainchild.

Also, I have to go for about 2 hours, maybe less. Something came up, which absolutely infuriates me that I have to leave my baby alone for a couple hours, but I will make a post when I return. Tweet at me if you need me! @esportsmonies

Yes, at this diff rate mining pool is needed ASAP for the ones with less hashrate now but want to get on mining eSportsmoney but nevertheless a block explorer is also needed.

Thank you for the 21 ESM :)

M8 you know what works? Creating a topic in the Alternative Coins announcements subforum or in the mining subforum that eSportsMoney ESM needs a mining pool! Easy as cake and im pretty sure a pool owner will reply!!! I wont do it because its still rewarding for me to solomine it :D

Well I still can't get it to work, so I guess I ain't mining this tonight.

need a pool!

might take a while.

meanwhile everybode is preoccupied with NYANcoin. A very popular coin cause of the early announcements

Well I already wrote a topic in https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=402155.new#new for a mining pool so we might get lucky :)

eZznMTTLFAVPJa2gZQNHHzXw8MDuS57AeC

you put the esportsmoney.conf in your C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\eSportsMoney

directory? also make sure you have the newest wallet and make sure the port is accessable not being blocked by your router or firewall

Sorry guys I'm back now. I put up an ad in the mining subforum. Would it be inappropriate to put an ad in the announcements forum or the marketplace forum?

It should be fine. We will definitely need some pools to hop on it for this coin to go anywhere!

I'm in talks with someone about making a pool. I will offer a smaller bounty for the second pool as well since I don't want one to monopolize!

I still can't get it to solo mine @mackcowanii. Any ideas?

The first pool is live! For the people!

http://198.53.169.220:4000/

And it looks like we've found a block already! Nice :P

I'm the pool operator just so you guys know.. It's my first public pool, so I'm not going to advertise it too hard just yet until I'm happy with how it's running.

If you have any issues, contact me here, via PM, or I'm also hanging out in #digipools on freenode.

Cheers, and hope the pool works well for you!

Seems to be working. Hopefully I can mine this in the long run! Let's see how well it does in the short term!

After we get a second pool up and I have a few days to mine some of them sweet eSports Monies I'll be looking into a bounty for a block explorer. Once we get that I'll be working on the future of eSportsMoney! By the way, the character on our logo is SirScoots, you can find him on Twitter @sirscoots. He's a very long time member of the competitive gaming community and is a well known personality. He is also the former Chief Operating Officer of team Evil Geniuses (hands down the most valuable North American progaming team). He agreed to be the man on the eSportsMoney!

Wts 1000 if these bad boys if anybody wants some love :P pm me!

at 2000 kh/s would it better to solo mine or pool mine this coin?

btw awesome work on this coin!

That dirty money.

I hope you've checked out the Church of Taeja.

I'm more of a DotA 2 guy, but I am a pretty big TL fan. I got to meet all the TL DotA 2 players at MLG Columbus this year.

120 confirms a block havent seen that in a while brings me back  ::)

It's not specified otherwise in the OP, so I just went with the default.

Anyone who has been solo mining know how many confirms the client is requiring for newly generated coins to be fully confirmed?

Anywhere between 90~150

It wasnt quick to say the least   :)

irc channel:

freenode

#esportsmoney

If current block is  2496, at approx a block a minute, implies minings been running for 40 hours! I thought this coin wasn't premined?????

I would solo at that level, should see a block every (diff*constant/hash rate/seconds in hour) which
for you is: 0.6 * 2^32/2000000/3600 = 0.35 of an hour.

On contrary, the solo confirms are very fast < 10 mins.

I think they turned out to be very similar and if not then the pool was deff more.

Cheers for your help

not syncing   >:( ??? ??? ???

@gross

Have you downloaded the current client file? Is your esportsmoney.conf set up correctly? Make sure ports 29334 and 29335 are not blocked.

wts 1000 esm 0.1 btc  :-*

I'm going to offer a bounty equal to 50% of the original bounty for a second mining pool. We really need a second! Network hashrate is at 40 MH/s, not bad at all!

Where can we trade ESM?

Nowhere yet, I'm hoping to get a second pool and a block explorer up and running before I start advertising to places like Coinedup.

[WTS]
Hello guys,
I have 1200 ESM to sell for 0.1 BTC, I have a rep thread here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=383359.0)
PM me if you're interested!

I'll be getting some BTC later this week to start my bagholding of ESM! :D But really, we need another mining pool.

You need server capabilities to run a pool right? Why not advertise to some existing pools like Luckyminers or Poolerino?

I'll look into them! I have also put up an advertisement/bounty for a block explorer in the announcements subforum.

I contacted Luckyminers regarding creating a new pool. In addition, we also have a nice subforum over at cryptocointalk. https://cryptocointalk.com/forum/611-esportsmoney-esm/


Difficulty is still incredibly low at .56, happy mining!

I'm putting 1 up right now :P

You're the man!

Testing stratum right now, almost there :P

Awwww yisss! We've also got someone working on a block explorer!

http://esports.luckyminers.com (http://esports.luckyminers.com) is up.
http://esports.luckyminers.com/img/esportsmoney.png (http://esports.luckyminers.com)

I am so very proud to add our second mining pool to the front page post! In addition, I'm giving away 1200 ESM (20 per person right now) over here!


https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404092.new#new

Logo will be updated once you have one :P
Add it to the main thread, its working! Now i need some hashers to avoid the 51% stuff.

ecRPCFEpy5LQaXADEd3xZyh3TXcWUjFBDz

Thanks

@jochem, that picture on the first page is our official logo. That is SirScoots, former Chief Operating Officer of Team Evil Geniuses, the largest and highest-paying North American professional gaming team.

Ah ok it said volvo please fix. Do you still get some sort of a coin logo?

As of right now we don't have a circular coin-shaped logo. If we did I think it'd best be a dollar-shaped rectangular bill with SirScoots' face in the middle.

I made a thread for all of your eSportsMoney buying and selling needs! https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=404400.new#new

I'm still waiting to hear back about the block explorer. In the mean time, we got our second pool up today, and our Steam group is growing! :D

From what I'm seeing it looks like the hashrates are split between the two pools right now, great stuff!

how big of a scoots fanboy are you? jesus

Mr. Better sounds an awful lot like Mr. Bitter.  :o

Lol it's a play on his name for an alias =p

I'm just saying, you probably don't absolutely need scoots' (literal) face for esports community adoption. I mean it's cool to use it as a fun thing but as the main coin logo?

In all honesty, I picked it for this just because I knew of an instance where he was throwing money everywhere.

Ya i know what you mean, it's a good gif. IMO it would be awesome if eSports Money had its own brand/logo then maybe use funny gifs and stuff like that to get the hype going, but that's just my opinion. Either way, go go eSports :D

Mr. Better I'm always open to new updates and graphics!

20 against 5 is split but not evenly :P

Hey guys, pool broke itself over night and was down a few hours. It's back up and running now.

I have lowered fees all the way down to just 0.5%, and also reduced the confirmations required before payouts down to 50 blocks to help get you guys paid faster.

Sorry about the downtime, adjusted some scripts so hopefully it will restart itself if it happens again.

Digipools eSportsMoney mining pool at http://198.53.169.220:4000/

I was asking myself where you went...

wallet only sync to 1499 then stops?

@insanetackle I'm sync'd and I'm at block 4066.

Also, I'll be trying to reconnect my miners now.

Please update image of coin or set bounty for some graphics design for propagation of coin.

If you get serious marketing/propagation(i mean that it will seem the coin has some feature and won't fall into oblivion) i got friend who is boss of well estabilished quite large LAN party in Czech Republic (for approximetly 200 people!!). We could donate some eSportsMoney for tournament prices in various games so the real life gaming community knows that something like this exists!!! So we will contact gamers themself! But it has to look nice so regular gamers like it.

Cool! I'll offer up a bounty later today.

Apparently pool 1 is still going to be down for a few hours. In the mean time Luckyminers is working just fine!

Yes mine is working excellent. Just make sure pool 1 is working good before you say its up again. Nothing is more irritating for an user if it points to the pool and it's not working half the time.

I get you 1500 for 0.10BTC

WTS 1500 ESM for 400K DOGE.
Can do in multiple parts.

Honestly I think that the real market price is about 1500-2000 ESM for .1 BTC given the price of BQC (the coin that this is based on) and the fact that this one will eventually be more rare.


Also, if anyone is interested in mining this and doesn't know how, PM me or Tweet @eSportsMonies

Yes i think so too.

400K doge is ~0.1BTC at current rate.
1500 ESM for 0.1BTC

Ok 2000 ESM for 0.1BTC for the next hour. Just to have something to trade :)

Coin is is my sig right now to give it some attention :)

ya were not gona get anywhere till we get the hashrate higher >.<

I'm trying to get a block explorer and some services going to encourage people to mine. I'm also waiting on digipool to come back online. I'll be buying a lot of ESM after some BTC transfers go through later this week.

my wallet isnt syncing anymore..is the coin forked?
are their any other addnodes?
i had 4 wallets working on 4 computers yesterday now none will sync

I'm not sure what to tell you. My wallet is working perfectly right now.

Ok guys, pool is now back up and running stable. Going to spend some more time working on recovery scripts so should things stop working hopefully it can restart itself.

Once again, I've dropped fees down to just 0.5% as an apology for the downtime, and I have also changed settings so blocks are confirmed and credited to your mining account after 60 confirmations instead of 120 so payments will be sent much faster now.

Thanks for your patience, and stay safe in the mines ;)

Digipools eSM pool http://198.53.169.220:4000

im not sure either, i think we need more nodes. cant pool owners add them? im a noob lol so idk what im talking about really

Pools can also act as nodes of course.. feel free to use the same IP as my pool (198.53.169.220) which should accept any incoming connections from clients looking for nodes.

howto:

In your client, goto help / debug window / console

enter
addnode 198.53.169.220 add

then a separate entry

getinfo

will tell you how many connections your client currently has and what block height it is sync'd to..

as of writing, my node has block height 4566

Stuck at block 1499  >:(

Any new nodes?

I managed to sync beyond block 1499 by adding port number in esportsmoney.conf (addnode xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:port) ;D

I've hosted a block explorer at: http://176.250.66.46:2750/

It's a temporary address for now, I'll set up a dynamic DNS address soon. (I don't have a static IP).

My ESM client is port forwarded, so you should also be able to add the node 176.250.66.46

Hu-rray! A block explorer! PM me your DOGE/ESM addresses! I will add that link to the front page for now!

It looks like both pools are up and running again and the hashrate seems to be somewhat split. Yay!

the first pool isnt calculating difficulty correctly its just staying at 16..also we need more miners on the first pool!

Thanks to jdh's report here we worked together in IRC and got vardiff working well now. It should respond to changing pool conditions much better for our miners now. Thanks!

yes the Digipools - http://198.53.169.220:4000/ - is definately up and running well now...just need a couple more miners to hop on and join us!

we need a few miners to bring their workers to the first pool to split the network hashrate better!

I'm back and will run it overnight. Would be great if they removed the 1.5% fee though... I usually donate at 1%. 1.5% is a bit too high.

I did in fact :) you must have missed it in my other posts.

Pool fee is now just 0.5% ;)

I will be moving my miners back over to the first pool to try to balance things out.

Pleeeease consider moving some mining hardware over to http://198.53.169.220:4000/ , we really need to divide the pools a bit.

Someone wake me when ESM gets a cryptsy listing. Valueless until then.

selling 2000 ESM for 0.05BTC

I've setup dynamic DNS for the explorer.

The new address is: http://esportsexplorer.us.to:2750/

I've started mining this one too :)

Just wondering, we have OGC (OnlineGamingCoin) and we have ESM (eSportsMoney), if it is not good to combine efforts for example when we are trying to create games, reduce cost for both coins. Promote each other and make each other bigger and bigger.

ogc had alot of issues at start and im pretty sure it was heavilly premined which is why its gone to nothing in value once it hit an exchange. i feel this coin has had a much fairer start and would have a better chance honestly
plus ogc devs dissapeared once they got their coins and could dump them on an exchange..our dev seems to actually care about this coin. its not getting much support rite now but we need to promote it and get more people mining for it to have a chance. im down to donate some esm for giveaways and whatnot, we need to start promoting this to get the hashrate above 50mh/s

Also, if I might add, OGC was sort of developed specifically for gambling, not for competitive video games or video games at all.

Heavilly premined,mmm, it was premined as the most other coins, 1% or 1.5M coins, some of them already went for giveaway. ESM has the problem that nothing is premine, so it is very difficult to promote this one, anyway i'm mining ESM because i believe it can add value to the market and i also want to promote ESM. There are too many coins and you need to spend a lot of time to make a difference in the market place that is why i suggest somekind of work together, if ESM creates a game or so then also add OGC as payment option, and ofcourse the other way around if OGC is able to sign a deal with one customer then we will also add ESM (if the CEO of ESM agree ofcourse).

Hi all...
I have a wierd behaviour: I was able to connect to luckyminer's pool for a few seconds and got registered (0.02xxx unconfirmed ESM). cgminer still runs, but neither luckyminers pool nor digipool register mynotebook is doing something.

Questions:
1) is --scrypt parameter mandatory, when I use a normal PC (have a gaming PC at home, still only one GFX, no ASIC hardware)?
2) what do i do to evaluate why my mining worker is not showing up on both pools?

Thank you!

yes --scrypt is mandatory for all scrypt based mining
if your kh/s is moving and you are getting accepteds in cgminer than it is working

Ok, I take a look into it, thanks.

this is correct, but this just means we as a community are gona have to help the dev out and support and promote this coin. we could start a faucet and a few other things
this is better for the coin in the long run, because no 1 person is holding a huge bag that they can dump whenever they feel like

The premine here was slight and accidental. I did not get any of the premined coined. Essentially we released a bad wallet file and someone downloaded the source code and compiled themselves a good version of the wallet. At least, this is what we think happened. I currently have a little over 4000 ESM, and I've been mining at over 1500 KH/s for days. Anyway, I wanted to let you guys know we should be releasing a new version of the client soon with updated graphics and icons!

My wallet is not synching... I assume, this is normal when a new wallet is not very common?

Try running 'addnode 176.250.66.46 add' in your debug window console.

Did that, no effect.
Restarted wallet, still getting "no block source available".

True, but a promotion must be smart, look, you have promotions like giveaway, giveaway 1000 coins, people that already own that coin will put their wallet number, but NO NEW miners!!!

I've a idea for OGC (what of course also can apply for ESM -as i'm pretty big mining it :)) why not organize a jackpot? Give people a big amount of coins and they need to follow the following rules.

1. They need to mine at least 5 hours a day for 2 weeks (Hashrate doesn't matter)

This support the coin and the mining pool should support us with x number of coins that they earn more because of this promotion.

2. If you completed the first rule then you can put your wallet number on the subject and then a live jackpot lottory will be done and winner takes it all.

This is not a bad idea. PM me if you get the details of this hashed out and we could maybe put something together, I'd me more than willing to donate to the prize pool. I also wanted to let you guys know that when I get home in a few hours I am going to increase the amount on the giveaway thread from 10 to 20 and revive that thread. If you want to increase the amount given away, feel free to PM me.

Why not make this permanent on the pools instead of a one time event?
Like a random jackpot independant from the worker's hasrate, plus one based on the shares someone had during a day (or something like that)? So it's interesting for small ppl like me but bigger miners are interested too?

I am in talks with someone who is trying to setup a website where you can buy Steam game codes and other game-related stuff with ESM. I think that's a much bigger than a pool lottery, that and updated graphics of course!

Sounds awesome, count me in (80+ steam games ;))

Yes, that will be much bigger than a pool lottery, as it give people the options to really use their ESM coins, but before people will use those games they first need to be motivated to mine at ESM? So then a big lottory can help boosting NEW minners. Releasing games is one thing, and people will read it and continue reading other stuff. Having a big lottory create new miners, new people that are interested in the coin but the lottory really needs to be big!!! around 1BTC or so. If every miner give a amount of coins that can be equal to 0.01BTC then you need 100 miner to achieve this. Make a deal with the mining pool so that they support this lottory too, as they will see a increase in new miners (meaning coin will be worth more).

yes this is whats going to make this coin work..something of this nature. but first we have to have miners to back the network and second we have to be on an exchange for liquidity and have some people wanting to buy, which is why we do the giveaways and things to get miners mining and more people interested

Infact we need to get on http://www.coinwarz.com/ and http://www.wheretomine.com/ this will give our coin the necessary boost, it will increase the number of miners, our coin, dammit, it is ESM, it is not OGC :),  anyway, a exchange is nice, of course, and then you finally also need to get on http://www.coinmarketcap.com because if you get on those sites then you have pretty good start to achieve your targets.

Mining like crazy at the moment :)

I emailed coinedup about getting on their exchange, I'm still waiting to hear back.

Do i need to try? The last time i ask for OGC and MEOW to get listed to the exchange and one day later it was listed. But the question is, do we really want to get it listed now already? Better to wait and get the marketing stuff ready and then start listing, no? Now it is easy mining too :D

i honestly feel we need another few days and some more promotion to get more people aware or it will just get dumped once on coined up. also we need at least 50mh/s to keep up with transactions or the network will be too slow, so we need more miners!
we lso need a couple of more pools to get the hashrate spread out. pool 1 is having some issues again leaving us with just 1 other pool and thats no bueno

Correct, i see you on the top of the pool :) Sometimes if i'm a little less active :D

1. More pools
2. Try to launch a few games
3. Then it is our job to promote this like crazy :) We have the pools ready, we have the games ready. If the games are great then people will just mine this for playing games. For example some slots, very populair, ofcourse this website needs to be support too by us, because we need to be able to cover the winnings, so i hope that the owner of the coin is also mining his coin for this kind of support too.

I think the biggest thing will be getting that Steam game service going, which will draw in more miners. Both of these will cause a bit of growth. In addition, I am hoping to update the client graphics by the end of the week.

Maybe some partnership with sports stuff ?

Good point...but the problem is that you're sooo limitted. For example i'm from belgium and if i find here a sport shop that allow us to use ESM then the number of customer are maybe 1 or 2. Or a shop in Texas, nobody will order something from Texas when you life in Florida, for example.

This is a sport coin so personally i believe the main focus should be create a website like Unibet (i hope you know :)) that allow us to play on sportgames. This website NEEDS to support BTC/ESM/$/€(and OGC  ;D) so that people that didn't mine anything can change their money into ESM and also play.

It's eSportsMoney, think more along the lines of competitive video games.

Post on TL. I know you're into SC2 mack. David Kim is as clueless as always.

Honestly I'm more of a DotA 2 guy. But even if this currency were as big as Bitcoin I don't know if Mr. Kim would give a shout out.

There's a separate forum for announcements.

Can the modes please delete this?

Difficulty is incredibly low right now at 0.21!

I don't know if that is a good think or a bad thing. I'm mining and for me it is good that not a lot of people are mining at the moment, but it is also bad as that means that nobody cares...

Wow guys let's jump on a coin that no one gives a shit about!

I think that you all know Star Citizen, the new game from the marker of Wing Commandor. He asked people to donate money to create his game, he only needed $21M and i don't know how much he has now, but i believe it was already more then $25M, now what i want to say is, create a really nice game linked to ESM and if the game is nice then your coin will be launched to. You have craftcoin here too, that is also used for gaming.

Any updates on the developments?

I've been talking to someone about making a Mac OS ESM client. I talked to some length with an enthusiastic individual from the forums last night and he says he will have a website that will buy Steam games with ESM within 3-4 weeks. I am also trying to find someone to setup a third pool. Another individual is working on updating the graphics, but they are pretty much finished. There were just a few very slight adjustments that I wanted before I sign off on making them the currency's new official logo/icon. Lastly, there is an exchange launching this coming week called http://coinye-exchange.com/ , and I think that we all should try to get them accept ESM. It would be nice for us to get on an official exchange before our more practical services are rolled out in the coming weeks. I think they only have an IRC channel at the moment. I specifically like this exchange because they mention they will be adding a large amount of coins, even very new coins. gl, hf!

Yes, i know about the exchange as i'm trying to get OGC also on that exchange, sometimes i really don't understand why people are investing in shitcoins and not put their hash to this coin. A lot of coins were released and some are already dead.

i think this is a great idea, we def need the mac client. getting on any exchange at this moment is good..we need some more miners to come join us and realize at this low difficulty it could be very profitable for them in a short amount of time. people need to remember this coin had a very fair launch, and i dont think too few people are holding a ton of coins. now is the best time to jump in :)
i/e their was no pre-mine, rediculous insta-mine, or a ton of rejected/orphan/issues, it was actually one of the best launches ive seen here lately

Nice niche,  enjoying the ease of mining so far. Both solo and pool..

You would be far better off lobbying Cryptsy, coin won't be taken seriously until it's on a mainstream exchange.

I agree with you somewhat, but we have to take baby steps with this.


I didn't hype the release, I just gave it an announcement thread (which is fairly detailed) and then I started solomining until I got in talks with someone about making a pool. I think people interested in and up and coming coin can get a lot out of something like ESM.

I'm looking forward to this one, since all of the new coins these days are fast pump and dump shemes with a huge premine from the devs. This one has fair launch, no premine and the totalcoins number is fine for me, so basicly the thing it needs is a little marketing, giveaway later on the coming weeks and a proper site. The more people who start to mention it and mine it expecialy now when the diff is so low will realize that they are not waisting their time. I will be happy to see this coin in an exchange and watching how the price goes :)

But are you mining this coin at the moment? I believe we only have 10 miners... look, i'm also not mining it, yes, from time to time i mine a few coins, but i'm als mining batcoin or Tips or any other coin.

Well yes I am mining it since the diff is so low :) I had 1mln tips or smth and when I saw how the price went down to 1 satoshi I just dumped them all and since then I'm looking for a good coin to start and I think this one got me today (since the epic 1rst and 2nd fail launches of aliencoin...). My mining speed is very low - 90khs so if this coin starts to build up and get to an exchange and etc. it can get really profitable for me right now at the current diff - 0.08 lol ;)

Yeap, aliencoin was really bad, it would take ages and development would already dump all their coins on the market and let the coin die. Good, now i'm little split, mining batcoin and usdecoin. No ESM at the moment, but every day a few hours with 3000kh/s is more then enough, maybe i will regrat it later, i was mining NETcoin also when it was at 0.00001000 against LTC, and it hit 0.00150000 against LTC, so 150 times higher, and i got have mined 5600 pieces. That wpimd be a lot of money. 10LTC per day, day of 30... maybe it will happen with ESM too, nothing, and still nothing, and 6 months later still nothing and then flying to the moon :)

Well thats how it works - nothing is sure and we can never predict the market. I'm looking at this like a game or smth atm :D I really wish I could afford a better GPU :/ but right now I'm stuck with what I have. One day tho my small efforts now, can turn big and take me to the moon who knows :)

nice concept, nice difficulty. i mine it for next hours.

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Still not much activity for ESM.. Even the person that created the coin stopped mining. Or is he solo mining now? I'm stuck in a pool because solo mining still don't work for me :(

I also stop mining... i've heard that they want to start another coin, but if this coin was nothing then the next coin will also fail. Why not put effort in this coin and make it work. Are people just soooo lazy and think that they will earn millions by doing nothing? Pitty, i have supported this one, but now i'm moving away. I'm mining KDC at the moment another interesting project, hopefully with devs THAT PUT SOME MORE EFFORT IN THEIR COIN!!!!

Mined it a bit because dif is so low, was at 0.07... any word from the dev?

Apart from the image in the wallet the coin is nice

Ya I know what you mean. The OP isn't even pushing for it.

Then someone need to take over this coin. It is not playing with kids here, we put our hashrate to support them, so they also need to give something back, if they are only 18 years old and thought to make easy money then i need to say, impossible, get this damm coin back on track and do your job, or put it for sale!!!

You can put a coin for sale?

Only thing I can try to do is advertise it on Reddit Starcraft and Team Liquid. But regardless, I'm not going to bother with this anymore till OP comes back.

Another crap. Are U ppl nuts?

Lol this coin is dead.

Do you guys have any active nodes? Trying to redownload my chain. thanks

I simply just don't get this coin lol does it have to do with sports or a tv show?

I guess I don't have to ask here if the coin is still alive... Graveyard folder it is!

:) Devvie
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